Evaluation of dual-aspect monism

Cards (4)

  • Dual-aspect monism can be seen to provide an answer to the issues raised by both dualism and physicalism
  • Dual-aspect monism can combine with Process Theology to provide a different but clear view of life after death, perhaps through 'objective immortality' where every person's experiences would be remembered forever in the mind of God.
    But this seems to rule out any sense of personal existence after death, such is believed by most Christians
    Although some think that God could see grant believers a personal existence after death
  • The single substance that underpins mind and body is not yet known. But something similar can be seen in quantum theory, where quarks are unobservable, but their existence is essential to particle physics
  • Quantum theory also helps in describing the complementary relationship between mind and matter